Chapter 12Opening, Sincerity and the Mother’s Grace · Opening and Presence

difficult only for those who refuse to take her as their all.

Of course; but most do not find it easy to take the Mother as their all.

22 March 1935

* We are told the Mother can act best if a sadhak is sincere. But what is meant by this?

What is meant by sincere sadhana? In the Mother’s definition of sincere, it means “opening only to the Divine Forces”, i.e. rejecting all the others even if they come.

21 April 1936 Do calm and equality come down from above by the Mother’s Grace?

When they descend, it is by the soul’s aspiration and the Mother’s grace.

* quietude and confidence.

* I don’t feel Mother’s grace as before. Sometimes I get the suggestion that I am not fit for her service and for Yoga.

What is all this nonsense? The grace of the Mother does not withdraw; open yourself and you will feel it.

1 May 1929

* The presence whose fading he regrets can only be felt if the inner being continues to be consecrated and the outer nature is put into harmony or at least kept under the touch of the inner spirit. But if he does things which his inner being does not approve, this condition will be inevitably tarnished and, each time, the possibility of his feeling the presence will diminish. He must have a strong will to purification and an aspiration that does not flag and cease, if the Mother’s grace is to be there and effective.

6 May 1930

* To practise Yoga implies the will to overcome all attachments and turn to the Divine alone. The principal thing in the Yoga is to trust in the Divine Grace at every step, to direct the thought continually to the Divine and to offer oneself till the being opens and the Mother’s force can be felt working in the Adhara.

26 July 1932

* When a sadhak feels the Mother’s Grace coming down in him, is it by the consent of the Purusha in him?

down by the Mother’s will. The Purusha can accept or reject the Grace.

22 April 1933

* Is there any law of the working of the Mother’s Grace?

The more one develops the psychic, the more is it possible for the Grace to act.

13 August 1933

* Is the Mother’s Grace always general?

Both general and special.

8 February 1934

* How to receive what the Mother gives generally?

You have only to keep yourself open and whatever you need and can receive at the moment will come.

10 February 1934

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